global name 'sqrt' is not defined

[Nick Matzke]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> On 2009-02-05 10:08, Nick Matzke wrote:
>>> ..., I can run this in the ipython shell just fine:
>>> a = ["12", "15", "16", "38.2"]
>>> dim = int(sqrt(size(a)))
>>> ...But if I move these commands to a function in another file, it 
>>> freaks out:
>> You need to add:
>>
>> from math import sqrt
> or:
>     from cmath import sqrt
> or:
>     from numpy import sqrt





The weird thing is, when I do this, I still get the error:

============
nick at mws2[phylocom]|27> a = ["12", "15", "16", "38.2"]
nick at mws2[phylocom]|28> from LR_run_functions_v2 import 
make_half_square_array
nick at mws2[phylocom]|24> d = make_half_square_array(a)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/bioinformatics/phylocom/<ipython console> in <module>()

/bioinformatics/phylocom/_scripts/LR_run_functions_v2.py in 
make_half_square_array(linear_version_of_square_array)
    1548         from numpy import sqrt
    1549         a = linear_version_of_square_array
-> 1550         dim = int(sqrt(size(a)))
    1551
    1552

NameError: global name 'sqrt' is not defined
nick at mws2[phylocom]|25>
============

Is there some other place I should put the import command?  I.e.:
1. In the main script/ipython command line

2. In the called function, i.e. make_half_square_array() in 
LR_run_functions_v2.py

3. At the top of LR_run_functions_v2.py, outside of the individual 
functions?

Thanks...sorry for the noob questions!
Nick



> 
> Each with their own, slightly different, meaning.
> Hence the reason many of us prefer to import the module
> and reference the function as a module attribute.
> 
> Note that _many_ (especially older) package documents describe
> their code without the module name.  I believe that such behavior
> is because, when working to produce prose about a package, it
> feels too much like useless redundancy when describing each function
> or class as "package.name".
> 
> 
> --Scott David Daniels
> Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> 

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